Motor-vehicle.



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MOTOR-VEHICLE.

Application iled November .7, 1.912.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ALLEN LooMIs, a citizen of the United States, and resident of Detroit, Wayne county, State of Michigan, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Motor-Vehicles, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to motor vehicles, and particularly to commercial motor vehicles.

In vcommerciali vehicles heretofore, it has been customary to have the side panels and sometimes other parts of the body decorated with the name of the 'firm or company operating the vehicle and with other advertising matter.

With the development of the motor truck business has come the need for interchangeable bodies, so that various types of bodies can be used on a single chassis and so thatl two or more bodies of the same kind may be used alternately on a single chassis, one of them being loaded while the other is in operation on the frame.

One of the objects of the present invention is to provide a vehicle, preferably of the commercial type, with side panels supported from the frame or chassis independently of the body, for use particularly where the body is removable. Thus several bodies may be provided for a single chassis and only one set of signs or sign panels will be necessary, thus reducing to va considerable extent the cost of signs and sign panels, and placing the signs permanently on the chassis, where they are not so likely to be injured as they would be were they arranged on the sides of the bodies..

Another object of the invention is to provide a commercial vehicle with a body removable endwise and with side panels `supported from the frame of the vehicle independently of the body.

Another object of the invention is to provide a vehicle with side panels and mud guards supported independently of the vehicle body.

Other objects of the invetion will appear from the following description, taken in connection with the drawings which form a part of this specification, and in which- Figure 1 is a rear View of a vehicle built in accordance with this invention; Fig. 2

is a side elevation; and Fig. 3 1s an enlargedl Specification ofv Letters Patent.

Patented Aug. 3, tm..

serial No. 730,052.

transverse sectional viewT showing details of construction.

In the drawings, the frame of the chassis comprises side members 10 and cross mein-l bers 11, of which there may bel several,A

which frame is supported on springs 12 above the axle 13. Suitable traction wheels 14: and driving shaft 15 are provided.

Mounted directly upon the side members 10 is a pair of rails 16 constituting a track,

'upon whichanged rollers 17 may operate.

These flanged rollers are trunnioned in lbraclrets 18, secured to the bottom of the body 19; this body being of any suitable construction, but shown as a body of the inclosed type, suitable for moving furniture or other comparatively light merchandise.

With the above arrangement of remov? able body, it will be understood that each chassis may be provided with two bodies, one of which may be unloaded andv loaded again while the other is in use on the chassis, and in this way considerable time saved and the chassis kept in operation practically continuously. g

In order-to obviate providing each or all of the bodies with signs of the owner of the vehicle, a pair ofl side panels 2O of any suitable form or construction may be mounted TIS upon brackets 2l, which aresupported directly .upon the side members 10, as shown particularly in Fig. 3. These sign panels lmay, if desired, cover the entire side of the vehicle body, or they may extend partway up the side, as shown in the drawings, depending upon the amount of advertising matter the owner wishes to display.

It will be understood that several brackets 21 may be provided on each side of the vehicle, the number depending upon the size and position of the panels 20, and secured to these brackets is a sheet metal or other plate 22, which entirely fills inthe space between the frame member 10 and the panel 20, thus forming a mudv guard for the body and its support.

It will be understood that various modii'cations of the invention may be made without departing from the spirit thereof.

Having thus described my invention, what .Iclaim and desire to secure by Letters Pata motor vehicle, the combination.`

ported thereon, of a, sign panel arranged. at the sido of the body and outboard thereirorn to clear the loody as the latter is being removed, and means independent of the body for supporting the panel from the frame.

2. In a moto vehicle, the lcombination with the frame and L body Suppor'ed ther@ on und adopted to be removed therefrom longitudinally of the vehicle, of panels an" ranged at the sides of the body and oui;-

board therefrom, and means for supporting the panels from the frame independently of the body.

3. In a motor Vehicle, the combination Ameno? with the frame, the body, and roller oon- 

